just in time

Chapter 107 Candles

This year passed quickly, Yun Fang and Yi Chenliang basically stayed at home doing questions, taking exams, and reviewing. Because of Yi Chenliang's special situation, this winter vacation was a precious time for him to have a chance to make a breakthrough.

Yi Chenliang himself knew it well, not to mention that there was Yun Fangzai who was more caring than him, provided one-on-one tutoring, and completely mastered his learning methods.

It is simply getting twice the result with half the effort.

Today is the Lantern Festival, and school will start tomorrow. The two decided to venture out of the sea of ​​books and go out to relax for a day.

"There is a lantern festival in Jinshuihe Park." Yi Chenliang put his hand into the pocket of Yunfang's down jacket and walked next to him, "Auntie said yesterday that she wanted a little rabbit lantern, let's buy it for her .”

"When did she say that?" Yun Fang was puzzled.

"At dinner yesterday." Yi Chenliang firmly believed that he remembered it clearly.

"Then buy it back." Yun Fang dragged him forward, "But it's only morning, and the lantern festival won't be until after six o'clock in the afternoon..."

The two discussed where to go to play, but as soon as they left the gate of the community, they saw Su Qingbai standing outside.

Yunfang hadn't seen Su Qingbai for more than a year. After Su Shengwen took Yi Chenliang away, Su Qingbai also transferred back to the school in Beijing. Compared with before, he grew a lot taller, with sharper eyebrows and eyes. He stood with a gloomy expression There, look at them.

Yun Fang didn't hate Su Qingbai as much as he did Su Shengwen, at best he didn't like him. At the beginning, he casually told Chang Ziqi that Yi Chenliang was in England and wasted half a year of his time.

But Yi Chenliang really can't like Su Qingbai, and if he pulls Yun Fang, he will ignore him.

"Yi Chenliang." Su Qingbai frowned and called to him.

Yi Chenliang looked at him unkindly.

Su Qingbai said: "Mom's mental state is very bad now, she really wants to see you."

"The lawsuit is over, I have nothing to do with you." Yi Chenliang said coldly.

Su Qingbai took a deep breath, "For what happened before, I apologize to you on behalf of my parents. It was also my fault that I deliberately targeted you before. I'm sorry."

"No need." Yi Chenliang said expressionlessly, "Get out of the way."

"In the past, my mother's mental state was up and down, and she could only be adjusted by taking medicine, but it was difficult for her to control herself when she encountered something about you." Su Qingbai spoke very quickly: "Dad, he is usually busy with work, and he is very busy. It's hard to stay with her, and my father is very career-minded, and his situation in the Su family is not as easy as those people outside think. The fact that his mother divorced him hit him hard... I know you don't care about these—— "

"It was their mistake to take you away forcibly before, and it was wrong for me to stand by." Su Qingbo paused, "I didn't say these things to ask for your forgiveness, I just want you to know that many times my mother can't control it." Hold your emotions, she doesn't want to hurt you."

"She loves you more than me." Su Qingbai looked at him, "She has been very sad and guilty since grandpa passed away. Originally, the treatment has made progress, but now she has collapsed again."

"The doctor suggested that if she could see you more, it would be helpful for the treatment." Su Qingbai seemed very unaccustomed to begging for help, but he still bit the bullet and said: "I beg you, go and see her."

As Chang Ziqi said before, Su Qingbai has always been good at talking, and when he is polite, he will not make any mistakes at all. Now that he is talking about this, his posture is so low and so sincere, it is difficult to let people reject.

Of course Yi Chenliang can choose to refuse, he can't feel sorry for Su Qingbai at all, but he thinks of Yun Fang.

When he was a child, he dreamed of meeting his biological mother.

Even though he grew up later, even though he was full of anger and resistance when he was forcibly taken away, it is undeniable that he was a little happy when he saw Chu Xia for the first time.

Or it is the emotion of years long-cherished wish fulfilled.

Just like how badly Song Lili treated him before, he would still remember how kind she was to him. Even if she broke up with them afterward, he would still be sad.

Just like he hates what Chu Xia and Su Shengwen did, but it is undeniable that seeing them for the first time will still uncontrollably raise the desire for his biological parents that has been buried for many years from the bottom of his heart.

It's just that these insignificant feelings were quickly consumed by their actions.

Usually he doesn't want to overanalyze his heart and emotions, which makes him feel useless and cowardly, but he still has another self that he needs to love.

Just as Yun Fang knew that he would feel sorry for Song Lili, he also knew that Yun Fang would want to meet Chu Xia.

Not useless and cowardly.

It is a person's face-up and acknowledgment of his inner desire.

Even if this desire is so subtle that I may not be aware of it.

He needs to cut open his heart and observe carefully, so that he can find another self hidden deep inside.

-

When they arrived at the nursing home, Chu Xia was sitting by the window drawing.

Clusters of colorful tulips were blooming on the canvas under her hand. She was wearing a long white dress and sitting on the painting bench, looking quiet and gentle.

Chu Xia turned her head, her eyes lit up when she saw Yi Chenliang, "Liangliang, you are here to see mom!"

Yi Chenliang looked at her a little silently.

This was the first time Yun Fang saw Chu Xia in his two lives.

She doesn't even look like a patient, she is gentle and quiet when she is sitting there laughing, but if you look closely, you will find that her eyes are a little stiff, staring at Yi Chenliang stubbornly.

Su Qingbai stood aside, listening to Chu Xia talking there, as if just seeing Yi Chenliang was enough to make her happy.

Yun Fang and Yi Chenliang didn't stay for long, Su Qingbai sent them out of the gate of the nursing home.

"Thank you." Su Qingbai thanked them politely, he looked at Yi Chenliang, "We will not disturb your life anymore in the future."

Although it sounds like this sentence does not make people happy.

They shouldn't have bothered.

-

The lantern festival in Jinshuihe Park at night is very lively.

The two searched for a while in front of the stall selling lanterns, and finally found a lantern in the shape of a small rabbit. Yi Chenliang picked it up and looked, "Is this rabbit cross-eyed?"

Yun Fang took a closer look, "It seems to be a bit."

Tang Yi called at this time, asking the two of them to bring back candles for lighting when they went back, and specifically asked them to buy the ones in the shape of ingots.

So the two put the cross-eyed little rabbit back, and went to buy candles first.

Two people squatted in front of the candle stand to pick out ingot-shaped ones. The person looking at the stand was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl wearing a thick scarf with a snow-white fluffy ball dangling from the tail of the scarf.

Yun Fang put the chosen candle into a plastic bag and handed it to her, asking, "How much is the total?"

The little girl took the plastic bag and counted it, probably feeling suffocated, reached out and pulled the scarf down, and said softly, "It's 15 yuan in total."

Yun Fang took out the money and handed it to her. When he took the candle, he looked up and froze in place.

"Lan Lan, pass the lotus candle over there to Mom." A woman at the other end of the stall called her.

Lan Lan took the lotus candle at Yunfang's feet, walked over and handed it to her.

"What's wrong?" Yi Chenliang tilted his head to look at him.

It's hard to describe Yun Fang's expression now, it seems to be astonished, but also seems to be guilty, and his eyes are fixed on the little girl.

"Know?" Yi Chenliang asked him.

"We knew each other before." Yun Fang said.

When he said before, he was talking about the things before his death in the last life.

And when he saw the old man, he suddenly felt that those were all things from his previous life.

The two walked home with candles and cross-eyed rabbit lanterns.

"That little girl is Wan Hui when I was a child." Yun Fang knew that Yi Chen was very curious, so he didn't wait for him to pester him to ask, and took the initiative to speak: "She...showed me the photos when I was a child, they are exactly the same."

"Wan Hui is that partner you mentioned before?" Yi Chenliang asked.

"Yes." Yun Fang said: "When I met her, she was only 21 years old. At that time, she was already by Ge San's side, and she was very skilled."

——Wan Hui is a very beautiful girl.

She likes to dress up very much, even if it is a gun, she likes to choose the most beautiful one among them.

When Yi Chenliang saw Wan Hui for the first time, he happened to see her teaching someone a lesson. The pretty little girl was holding a knife in her hand, and when she raised the knife, blood stains splashed on her fair face.

"Hello, Ah Liang." Wan Hui looked at him with a smile, and stretched out a hand to him, "My name is Wan Hui, and I will be your partner from now on."

Yi Chenliang held her blood-stained hand expressionlessly.

Wan Hui is a cheerful and lively girl who likes to joke and buy cosmetics. When she has no tasks, she always likes to wear beautiful dresses, lively, cute, elegant, sexy... and then force him to say which one looks better.

Yi Chenliang would ignore her most of the time, sitting alone in the corner and cleaning his gun silently.

She would step on thin high-heeled shoes and run out to ask others, laughing with those people.

At that time, she was still young, and Ge San valued her very much. She was so happy that she didn't look like a killer, but like a princess who was admired by all the stars.

It's just that as she got older, Wan Hui smiled less and less, and even seldom wore skirts.

She always likes to stare at him and ask, "Ah Liang, why can't you like me?"

Then he frowned again, looking distressed.

"If only you could like me."

"When I see you, I think of my dead brother."

"Ah Liang, can you talk to me?"

"Yi Chenliang, I want to save you."

Yi Chenliang is always indifferent to her, "I won't like anyone, and I don't need others to save me."

When he said this, Wan Hui laughed hard, looking a little inexplicably sad.

Later, she wore a gorgeous red dress, heavy makeup, long hair hanging on her shoulders, and the point of the knife pointed at his heart.

"Yi Chenliang, you have no heart at all."

The smile on Wan Hui's face was mixed with joy and sadness, and she almost collapsed and pulled his collar and shouted hysterically: "You have no heart! I have been with you for so many years, and you never look back at me!"

"I don't want to kill you, but you owe me your life." She laughed nervously, and the smile on her face faded slowly. "Before my mother took me to remarry, my name was not Wan Hui, but Wang Youlan."

"20 years ago, Xinnan Lane, Dongyang Street, do you still remember the first person you killed?"

"His name is Wang Youwei."

"It's my own brother."

"Yi Chenliang, killing for life is justified."

"Come to hell with me."